Garment-supporter.



Nu. 7l0,675. Patented Oct. 7, I902.

F. FERGUSON.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

(Application filed Dec. 26, 1901.)

(lo Modal.)

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UNITED v STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERGUS FERGUSON, OF SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,675, dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed December 26, 1901. Serial No. 87,334. (No model.)

To all whom, it ntmy concern.-

Be it known that I, FERoUs FERGUSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Rosa, county of Sonoma, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Garment- Supporters; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in garment-supporting devices, particularly of the type used in conjunction with the ordinary trousers-suspenders of men. Its object is to provide a drawers-supporter which may be quickly attached to or detached from the suspender, is adjustable to various necessary lengths, and which is adapted to take layers of cloth of any weight or thickness.

It consists of flexible grip members adapted to engage the garment to be supported, said members comprising an elastic-sided yoke or holder, one end of which is slidable and retained in a cylindrical extension of the other side, a stud or button having a resilient covering of rubber, felt, or the like, said button adapted to be engaged'by said elastic loop, and meansby which these grip members may be attached to a suspender or the like.

It com prises details which will be more fully set forth hereinafter, having reference to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a perspective of my invention, also showing means for connecting it with the susponder-strap.

Having reference to the drawing, A represents the plate of a buckle which is adjustable on the suspender-strap 4. A strap 5, secured to the suspender buckle, carries a buckle 10, to which a second strap 11 is held. The latter carries the members constituting the essential part of my invention and by which the garment to be supported is engaged. These members consist of an elastic wire yoke 12, adapted to fit over a stud or button 13, carried on the strap. The method of fastening is to press the head of the stud against the cloth of the garment in the wider space 14 between the sides of the yoke to admit the cloth and button, then allow the latter to slip down between these sides, which will yield accordingly to allow even double thicknesses of heavy cloth to be held; yet at the same time the sides are near enough together to grip properly the finest fabric. The yoke has its lower ends extended below the button-holding space, and one of the extensions is provided with a cylindrical part 15, in which the other extension 16 is slidable. These parts are of sufficient length to afford all the necessary movement. As the yoke is preferably made of wire, the cylinder 15 is formed by suitably coiling one end of the wire, as shown. distance to which the button may move downwardly. may be provided with the oppositely-disposed offsets 17, which allow greater accommodation for the button and cloth and prevent the button from being accidentally disengaged from the yoke. The shank and head of the button may be provided with a covering 18, of rubber, felt, leather, or like yielding ma terial, whereby the goods are prevented from being torn or otherwise injured.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garment-supporter comprising supporting-straps and members on said straps by The inelastic strap 11 limits the If desired, the sides of the yoke which a garment may be engaged, said members including an elastic-sided yoke having two substantially parallel members slidable relatively to each other in a direction longitudinally to the yoke, one of said members having a guide through which the other member is slidable, and a stud with which the garment is adapted to be engaged in the space between the members of the yoke.

2. In a garmen t-supporter, a yoke or holder adapted to receive a stud into the space between its sides, said holder having its lower portion extended to form substantially paral lel members slidable relatively to each other in a direction longitudinally to the yoke, one of said members having a guide and the other member slidably engaging said guide.

3. In a garment-supporter, a yoke orholder adapted to receive a stud into the space between its sides said sides having each a portion extended in the direction of the length of the yoke and brought nearer together to form a contracted lower portion, said sides slidable relatively to each other in a direction longitudinally to the yoke and one of said extended portions having formed integrally 1 therewith a cylindrical guide and the other one of said sides having a guide for the other to extended portion slidable in said guide. side.

4. Inagarrnent-supporter, the combination In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my of a yoke or holder adapted to receive a stud I hand. into the space between its sides said stud having a. hard body and a head and a yielding FERGUS FERGUSON or soft covering therefor, and said yoke hav- Witnesses ing its sides slidable relatively to each other JAMES E. EWING, in a direction longitudinally to the yoke, and GLENN F. FOULKE. 

